Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting vips package, versions <8.4.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.55% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-VIPS-299738
  • published26 Jan 2019
  • disclosed26 Jan 2019

Introduced: 26 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6976  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 vips to version 8.4.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vips package and not the vips package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

libvips before 8.7.4 generates output images from uninitialized memory locations when processing corrupted input image data because iofuncs/memory.c does not zero out allocated memory. This can result in leaking raw process memory contents through the output image.